Kindergarten - 7th Grade Summarize and Retell Worksheets

Use this worksheet as a way for students to practice retelling a familiar story using their own words and images.

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

Get ready to take an exciting trip as you read this cheerful passage!

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Read this classic children's story — then stage a stick puppet performance of it!

Read this charmingly illustrated story of "The Three Little Pigs" then use the finger puppets to retell it!

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Young readers respond to the books they have completed with this versatile worksheet template.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

Use this simple organizer to help students track and record key ideas when reading and summarizing nonfiction texts.

Help the Smith family summarize their family vacation with a main idea, details, and a conclusion. Kids will work on reading comprehension and summarizing.

Help students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

After independent reading, have students record and reflect. Young readers will demonstrate their ability to summarize and respond to their reading, and a log is a fun way for them to track their progress. Make copies of this log to use again and again!

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Use this fairy tale story map to follow the details of your child's favorite stories and strengthen his reading skills.